PHP - Drupal implementation: Fastest and easiest way of creating and managing a website

PHP - Drupal implementation: Fastest and easiest way of creating and managing a website

Mughal Rehana Mujawar

Head- Technology Andesoft Consulting Pvt. Ltd.

Mughal has over 12 years of work experience in software and web... development. She has executed many projects in open source and Microsoft technologies along with some device based development. She is involved in creating and managing high performance, mission critical, highly scalable systems. Mughal currently heads the technologies team at Andesoft Consulting Pvt. Ltd. As a team leader has provided vital contribution in component development, third-party framework customization and integration, UI integration, and building intelligent systems.

Drupal is an open source PHP based content management system & web application framework. Millions of websites are developed in it. It is one of the most popular and liked system in the current market. Drupal's content management features make it easy to create and manage your site even if you are non-technical.Drupal comes with many tools to help you organize, structure, find and re-use your content. It is more flexible for adding and managing various types of content. Drupal has a very good track record in terms of security. Issues like Injection, Cross Site Scripting, Session Management, Cross Site Request Forgeries, and others all have standard solutions in the Drupal.We can dive into Drupal by understanding the various terms used in Drupal.Node: Any website is a collection of pages and each page is known as a node in Drupa. We require Content Construction Kit (CCK) module to create and manage page by creating the content type. Each item in a content type is actually the a node. Block: Blocks are the visible boxes of information on a Drupal website. Most blocks are created by Drupal modules or can create custom blocks from the drupal block administer. Blocks can be placed at various regions of a page.Module: . Modules are functional plugins that are either part of the core Drupal or they are community contributed items or a custom written program. Taxonomy: Taxonomy refers to Content categories. Taxonomy is the Drupal’s way of classifying the content.Views: View is the easiest and fastest way of creating the dynamic pages and blocks. It saves lots of time in creating pages.

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